Mystery Model Ox Alpha Has the Internet Guessing, Lady Gaga's Startup Trains AI on Skin
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of August 24th, 2026. An anonymous model called Ox Alpha launched free on OpenRouter with a million token context window and multimodal input built for coding and agentic work, hitting an eye catching 80% on a coding benchmark subset Friday before full testing settled it closer to 63%, near Fable 5 at a fraction of the tokens, with naming clues and behavior pointing toward China's Zhipu AI, though Microsoft's MAI family remains a candidate too, and the offer stays live with near unlimited free access and capacity for 100 trillion tokens a day this…
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